Abstract: The vertical structure of the relationship between water vapor and precipitation is analyzed in 5 yr of radiosonde and precipitation gauge data from the Nauru Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) site. The first vertical ...

Abstract: Empirical studies using satellite data and radiosondes have shown that precipitation increases with column water vapor (CWV) in the tropics, and that this increase is much steeper above some critical CWV value. Here, eight ...

Abstract: To investigate dominant vertical structures of observed temperature perturbations, and to test the temperature implications of the convective quasi-equilibrium hypothesis, the relationship of the tropical temperature profile ...

Abstract: igh-resolution simulations over a large tropical domain (~20°S?20°N, 42°E?180°) using both explicit and parameterized convection are analyzed and compared to observations during a 10-day case study of an active Madden?Julian ...

Abstract: igh-resolution simulations over a large tropical domain (~20°S?20°N, 42°E?180°) using both explicit and parameterized convection are analyzed and compared during a 10-day case study of an active Madden?Julian oscillation ...

Abstract: elationships among relatively high-frequency probability distribution functions (pdfs) of anomalous column water vapor (cwv), precipitating deep convection, and the vertical and horizontal structures of circulation and ...

Abstract: AbstractStudies have shown that the location and structure of the simulated intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is sensitive to the treatment of sub-gridscale convection and cloud?radiation interactions. This sensitivity ...